[BretLudwig]

Historic: The Roots of Civilization

"Turn on a local television news program in just about any large city in
this country, and the chances are nearly 100% that you'll hear and see at
least one Black announcer telling you what's happening. He'll be dressed
and groomed just like the White announcers, and , in most cases, his
enunciation will be so similar that you can close your eyes for a moment
and almost convince yourself that you are listening to a White person.

In smoothly modulated tones the Black announcer will tell you about the
intricacies of the latest financial scandal at city hall, give you a crisp
rundown on upcoming cultural events, and perhaps even offer a sage comment
or two on the state of public morality. Never once will he stumble over
the polysyllabic words in his script or lapse into ghetto speech. At the
end of the program he will engage in the customary few seconds of light
banter with the other news announcers, and you can hardly help being
overwhelmed by the conviction that, really, the only difference between
him and his White colleagues is a matter of pigmentation.

That, of course, is exactly the conviction the directors and producers of
the program intend you to be overwhelmed by. It is a conviction totally at
odds with that held by most White Americans only a generation ago. Of
course, the Amos'n'Andy image of Blacks hardly able to speak or tie their
shoes was an overly simplistic image, but so is the one now created by
today's media managers. Blacks can be trained to read news scripts with
competence, to get to work on time and sober, and to dress and talk almost
exactly like the best type of Whites. But the differences between Blacks
and Whites nevertheless run far more than skin deep. Those concerned with
the survival of America and of Western Civilization need to understand
these differences fully.

The difference which has been most widely discussed is the quantitative
difference in the average Intelligence Quotient, or IQ for short, between
Blacks and Whites. For many decades in this country, despite intensive
efforts by educators, politicians and the testing companies themselves,
Blacks have and still do consistently score 15 points lower than Whites on
standardized IQ tests.

But there is also a qualitative difference in the intelligence of Blacks
and Whites, and this difference is even more significant than the
quantitative difference in IQs. Blacks, in other words, are not just on
average slower to learn than Whites, but their mental processes differ in
their essential nature from those of Whites.

At learning tasks which require only memory - for example, simple
arithmetical operations and spelling - properly motivated Blacks can do
nearly as well as Whites. But at tasks which require abstraction, or
inference of a general rule from a series of instances - and this includes
virtually all problem-solving operations - Black performance falls fall
below that of Whites.

This Black inability to reason inferentially and to deal with abstract
concepts is reflected in the almost total absence of Blacks, despite
decades of "affirmative action," in those professions requiring abstract
reasoning ability of a high order: physics and mathematics, for example.
Government quotas have brought a sharp increase in the number of Blacks in
Americans colleges and universities in recent decades, and Blacks have
flooded into many professions as a result, but the sciences have remained
virtually all White. You may see Black nuclear physicists in the movies,
but in real life the only Blacks you will find in physics labs are
janitors and technicians - and not many have qualified as technicians.

This qualitative difference in racial intelligence is overlooked by many -
and it is easy to see why this is so: most of us have a simplistic notion
of human intelligence. We think of some people as being "dull" or "slow"
and others as being "bright." If a person is "dull," he is slackjawed and
unkempt, his speech is slow, and his vocabulary is limited; our vision of
him is modeled on that of the classic village idiot. And we think of a
"bright" person as one with a quick tongue and a neat appearance.

We have been taught by TV that our former classification of Blacks as a
race of village idiots was in error. So now we make the opposite error of
assuming that, since many of them have a quick tongue and a neat
appearance, they are approximately as "bright" as White people.

Human intelligence is many-faceted. It cannot be adequately characterized
by such terms as "dullness" or "brightness." A good memory and a facile
tongue - that is, what modern educators loosely refer to as "verbal
skills" - do not imply an ability to deal with abstract concepts and solve
problems.

The former and the latter are separate - and independent - facets of
intelligence. The former is what we more easily notice, but it is the
latter on which our civilization is based. And the latter is closely
linked to race.

The racial dependence of abstract reasoning ability is no secret.
Anatomists have been aware for many years of the morphological
differences, between the brains of Blacks and Whites, and neurologists and
psychologists today understand that it is in precisely those portions of
the brain which in Blacks are less developed than in Whites that abstract
reasoning takes place.

But because Blacks do not suffer a corresponding deficiency in their
ability to develop verbal skills, we allow ourselves to assume equality
where there is none, and we try to explain away troublesome facts like low
IQ scores with nonsense about "cultural bias." One only has to look at the
high IQ scores of recent Asian immigrants, who suffer far more than US
Blacks from cultural differences, to put the lie to that argument.

This error in assuming Black intellectual equality on the basis of the
skills displayed by Black news announcers or entertainers is just one
aspect of a general tendency today to confuse style for substance.
Attainments of substance require exacting analysis and prudent judgment,
and an understanding of underlying principles. That's too much like work
for many moderns. We have, it seems, now come to prefer style to
substance. This could prove fatal to our civilization.

"Verbal skill" may have a high survival value for the individual who
possesses them, but they are not civilization-building skills. A smooth
line of patter may help in selling rugs or insurance; the fast talker may
more often land the good job or the pretty girl; the person with a large
vocabulary and an easy, self-confident mode of expression usually makes a
good impression on others - a "bright" impression. But it is the
analytical thinker, the problem-solver, who, glib or not, is the founder
and sustainer of civilizations.

The clever office-seeker, the successful rug merchant, the adaptable
mimic, the fluent news announcer - all have more-or-less useful roles to
play in civilized life - but the very existence of that civilized life
depends upon men with an altogether different set of skills. That is true
of Western Civilization today, and it will also be true of the future
civilization we must build if the West continues on its downward spiral.

Today Western Liberals are working very hard to help the Third World
become "developed" - that is, civilized. They want to prove that the
Blacks and Browns of this world have just as much capacity for
civilization as Whites do. And if one visits Kenya or Nigeria, one sees
what does seem like a Black civilization: Blacks driving automobiles,
operating elevators, using computers and calculators and telephones, and
even flying airplanes.

But it is an illusion. It is the style of civilization rather than its
substance. And to the extent that even the style is maintained, there is a
White minority present to keep the wheels turning. In those African
countries which forced nearly all Whites to leave, civilization has ground
rapidly to a halt and the jungle vines have begun taking over again.

When a diesel tractor or an electrical generator or a telephone switching
system breaks down in Africa, it stays broken down until a White man fixes
it - despite all the Black graduates African universities have been turning
out recently. And it is not a cultural problem or an educational problem.

In this country half a century ago few farmers had ever seen a university.
Many had not even been to high school. Yet, when a tractor broke down they
got it running again, one way or another. They pulled it into the barn,
took it apart, puzzled out the difficulty, figured a way to fix it - and
then did it, often using extremely primitive facilities.

It wasn't a matter of culture. It's what was called "Yankee ingenuity."
It's a racial trait.

Today civilization is more complex than it was 50 years ago. A
considerably higher degree of "Yankee ingenuity" is required to keep it
running. Very few of us who talk glibly about space ships and lasers and
computers realize that we owe the existence of these things to an
extraordinarily tiny minority of our people. The technology as well as the
science involved in producing something like a pocket calculator is quite
complex. A lot of people can talk about it, but very, very few are capable
of actually solving the problems - or even being taught to solve the
problems - involved in designing and building such a device so that it
does what it is supposed to do.

Another thing that many of us do not realize is what a thin thread it is
which supports civilizations in general and our present technological
civilization in particular. We are holding onto this thread only by the
skin of our teeth, only by exerting ourselves to the utmost of our
creative abilities.

I am afraid that the average American of today would assume - if he
bothered to think about it - that if the average IQ of our nation were to
decline by, say, five per cent as a result of racial interbreeding or a
continuation of other dysgenic practices, it would perhaps cause a
corresponding decline of five per cent in the level of our civilization.

Not so! A five per cent decline in average IQ would cause our civilization
to collapse. That is exactly what has happened to many other civilizations
in the past, far less technologically advanced than ours. Our situation is
much more precarious.

The level of civilization that a people can develop and maintain is a
function of the biological quality, the racial quality, of that people -
in particular, of its problem-solving ability. That is why Blacks and
certain other races never developed even a rudimentary civilization and
are incapable of sustaining a civilization built for them by Whites -
despite the apparent "brightness" of many Blacks. And it is why the race
which built Western Civilization not only must regain exclusive possession
of its territories, but must also act quickly to change those policies and
institutions which are causing an increasing percentage of those born to
our own race to be problem-makers rather than problem-solvers.

We must do this because it is the only way our race, nation and
civilization can be rescued from their decline. But our civilization is
not an end in itself. The tools of a civilization, once it has reached a
sufficiently high level - and we have reached that level - allow us not
only to weed out the problem-makers from our midst, but to insure that we
will produce even more capable problem-solvers than we have produced in
the past. That, in turn, will allow the achievement and maintenance of a
still-higher level of civilization - which will even further enhance our
capabilities for progress in every realm.

We stand today at a threshold. If we cross it successfully, we will be on
the upward path toward a world of progress, peace, prosperity, knowledge,
and wisdom beyond imagining. To cross this threshold requires a clear
understanding of what it is that lies at the roots of civilization; it
requires the ability to distinguish between style and substance; and it
requires that we value substance above style."


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